I'm Just Sayin'

Did you know that global transportation...all the cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, locomotives and busses on the planet account for about 14% of the total man made carbon emissions (CO2)? Coal fired power plants contribute about 24%. This is alarming and you may have already been aware of these numbers, but hold on...I'll bet you didn't know that of the total CO2 emissions into our atmosphere, the man made CO2 emissions and all other manmade emissions only account for about %0.28 of the total green house gasses. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Yep...the vast majority of green house gasses are generated by the earth itself....over 99%. The biggest culprit as far as global warming is concerned is water vapor. It's a green house gas too. I'm copying from the above linked website:                 

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

I don't want to trivialize the effort to decrease our environment impact and we should honor our planet and do all in our power to protect and keep the Earth clean and green, but  as we rush to save the planet from global warming, let's make sure we have our facts correct. I'm copying again:

Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

I'm not debating weather or not the polar ice cap is melting...it is melting. Is this a result of man's activities or is it a natural progression of the planet changes that have been taking place for the millions of years our little Earth has existed? Why would we assume that climate changes and movements would suddenly halt for us...now?  Think about it.